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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Advice rebuilding a new database after site got hackedThank you Josh and bottleneck.
So I have two options: one is to copy and paste post content, and then export/import wp-comments, and then manually adjust comment_post_ID. I have only 121 comments so this wouldn’t be too bad, but still would take quite some time.
The other option is to export/import wp_posts and wp_comments together, which would save all the manual editing. However there is a small chance that even these tables are infected. I have had a brief look through it, and nothing looks suspicious, so they’re probably fine.
The final option would be to just copy and paste page content for my 43 posts and lose the comments.
I will play around and see what solution works out best. Thanks again. It’s really nice to know you’re not alone when you get hacked and that there are people willing to support you in the recovery process.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Broken posts pages causing 404'sHello again Gene,
I’m really grateful that you have taken the time to look into this.
If you are getting the same results, then I am satisfied.
I’m also a bit blown away that you looked into my child theme. It’s actually a theme I made myself, based on thematic. I was aware that it was loading the superfish scripts, but didn’t think that would make much difference. However you’re right, it would be neater not to load them if I’m not using them. I’ll deal with that soon.
Thank you again!
KitClick on “screen options” in the top-right corner and uncheck any of the SEO columns you don’t want. “Post” should go back to the proper size.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Broken posts pages causing 404'sGene,
I’m really grateful for your help on this.
I tried changing permalinks to a new type by the phantom pages remain operational. Changing back to the current permalink type didn’t help either.
You were right about the relative urls making the welcome page broken when it appears as page/1 etc.. So I have fixed that. It now looks right.
This may well fix the google crawling errors.
I still don’t know why these pages exist… is it normal? They are not linked to from anywhere, however, so I suppose they won’t actually do any damage. I’m just a perfectionist and would rather they didn’t exist at all.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Broken posts pages causing 404'sI forgot to mention that I am using a custom child theme of Thematic.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Mystery "older posts" page causing crawl errorsThanks for the link. I could be related, but I suspect not.
Since it won’t penalise me at all, I’ll probably just ignore it, or add these spurious pages to robots.txt.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Mystery "older posts" page causing crawl errorsHi Krishna, I appreciate your advice, but I don’t think you’ve correctly identified my problem.
How can I delete a page I have not created? How can I delete links I haven’t created? This is why I have created this thread.
All of my posts appear below “writings”.
e.g.
http://oldmankit.com/writings/page/1/
http://oldmankit.com/writings/page/2/
http://oldmankit.com/writings/page/3/
http://oldmankit.com/writings/page/5/No problem. But the following are not posts pages, they are not displaying anything useful, and I don’t want them to exist:
http://oldmankit.com/page/1/
http://oldmankit.com/page/2/
http://oldmankit.com/page/3/
http://oldmankit.com/page/4/
…
http://oldmankit.com/page/100000/I could find more examples.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Mystery "older posts" page causing crawl errorsIt’s not a page I created. It looks like a page of posts, akin to what it is correctly creating here:
http://oldmankit.com/writings/page/2/
http://oldmankit.com/writings/page/3/
etc.The above are correct and working. The below, however, are all nonsense pages, all the same, and all broken versions of the top-level page (oldmankit.com):
http://oldmankit.com/page/2/
http://oldmankit.com/page/3/
http://oldmankit.com/page/4/
etc.If that’s not clear, compare
http://oldmankit.com
http://oldmankit.com/page/4/ (I want to get rid of this as it’s broken and contains broken links)
http://oldmankit.com/writings/page/4/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Mystery "older posts" page causing crawl errorsThat means the URL simply does not exist. Is it that?
It does exist (see http://oldmankit.com/page/2/). It’s a broken (no images) version of the top page of the domain. It’s not a 404. I don’t know where it’s coming from!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] new post not showing (404)I think I checked the server log and found nothing at the time. The problem went away and has not returned!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: White screen due to jetpack@jan, thanks for explaining, and for the tips. I will try that plugin.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: White screen due to jetpackProblem was solved by increasing memory to 64 MB.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: White screen due to jetpackI am going to open a new thread with a more appropriate title.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: White screen due to jetpackI found the same error when I tried to re-activate W3 Total Cache.
I want to use that one, so any help troubleshooting this is much appreciated!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Remove "The post … appeared first on …"Thomask: Thank you!